Adele for most of 1862, steamed; her family fretted. At the first of that year, as we have seen, she and her mother had undoubted evidence that Pinson was not only not interested in marrying her but effectively deserted her by traveling far away to Halifax, then a British military outpost on the eastern coast of Canada. The year passed into the following year. It is not known whether there was any correspondence between Adele and Pinson. In that year, 1863, Adele refused yet another marriage proposal by an Italian poet.43 That summer, Adele, it seems, made up her mind to go to Halifax and face Pinson. Before July, Adele, again with her family thinking she was to meet up with a family member in Europe, took ship for Weymouth, England. Then she took passage for New York on the Great Eastern.44 At the end of July, she took the New York mail packet for Halifax.

Adele wrote to her family at Guernsey to advise of her new situation. The family was led to believe that she had married Pinson in England before coming out to Halifax, though in time she advised her brother, Fancois-Victor, that in fact no marriage had taken place.46 Money was sent to her on a monthly basis.